New Year's salads

The coming 2012 is the year of the Dragon, thereforeNew Year's salads should be nutritious, with meat and fish, so you are more likely to please the symbol of the coming year. However, vegetables like Dragon, too, so that light vegetable New Year's will also be very handy. Recipes of New Year's salads the Country of Soviets shares.

New Year's basket

If you know exactly how many guests will come to you, you can prepare portioned New Year salads - for example, a salad "New Year's Bow". For its preparation, we need (for 6 servings of salad):

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  200 g chicken fillet
• 
  100 g prunes
• 
  100 g of mayonnaise
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  3 apples
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  2 cucumber
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  Chinese cabbage
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  salt, pepper - to taste

Pork cabbage washed, squeezed and finelycut. Chicken fillet boil, let cool and cut as finely as cabbage. Prunes are washed, remove pits (if any) and cut. Cucumbers washing, peeled and cut too. Mix all the sliced ​​ingredients in a bowl, salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise. My apples, cut into halves, remove the core and fill with salad.

New Year's surprise

Portional New Year salads can be laid out not only in apples, but, for example, and in avocados. To prepare a salad "New Year's surprise" from avocado, we will need (for 2 servings of salad):

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  200 g chicken fillet
• 
  50 g of olive oil
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  4 eggs
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  2 cucumber
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  1 avocado
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  half a lemon
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  salt, pepper - to taste

Boil the chicken fillet and finely chop it. Eggs are also boiled, cooled, cleaned and finely chopped. Cucumbers and cut into small cubes. Mix all the ingredients and season with olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice. Avocado cut "on the equator", carefully divide it into two halves, rotating them in opposite directions, and remove the stone. In order for you to do this, the avocado should not be too soft or too hard, nor should it have any dark spots on the peel. We scrape the pulp with a teaspoon. Spread the salad in the peel, decorate the flesh with avocado.

New Year chimes

In a clock counting down the last minutes before the new year, we can make out not only the New Year's cakes, but also New Year salads. Here is just one of the possible recipes for this salad. We will need such products:

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  450 g of mayonnaise
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  250 grams of hard cheese
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  14 pcs. prunes (optional)
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  5 cloves of garlic
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  4 eggs
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  3 carrots
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  3 beets
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  3 tablespoons walnuts
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  3 tablespoons raisins
• 
  cranberry for decoration

First we prepare the gas station. Garlic is passed through garlic and mixed with mayonnaise. Carrots mine, we clean and directly in a crude kind we rub on a small grater. Raisins wash, pour boiling water for 10 minutes and drain the water. For a more piquant, you can soak raisins in cognac instead of boiling water, but then you will need to insist it longer. Mix raisins with carrots, spread on a round dish on a flat layer and grease with a dressing.

Hard cheese rubbing on a medium grater,lay out the second layer and again lubricate the dressing. Beets are boiled and rubbed on a large grater. Prunes are poured with boiling water, we insist 20 minutes, merge water and finely cut. Nuts are finely chopped. Mix beets, prunes and nuts, lay out the third layer of our salad and grease with a dressing.

Eggs boil hard, cool and clean. Proteins of two eggs are put aside for decoration, the rest is rubbed on the middle grater, we spread the last layer and lubricate the remaining dressing. Put the squeezed squirrels on a medium grater, sprinkle them with salad from above and from the sides. From the cranberry we put the clock - Roman numerals XII, III, VI and IX, hour and minute hands.

These New Year salads can be served on the festive table. Bon Appetit!